Roger Ebert’s Perfect Score: Weird Fantasy Horror Movie Review
For directors wiht ”weird” sensibilities, winning over movie critics is hugely significant. Sadly, in 2026, this has all been boiled down to getting your film a “certified Fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which can be incredibly misleading since the website has approved far too many critics, many of whom have rigidly mainstream tastes. This also makes it difficult for odd and/or challenging films to break through.
It was a much diffrent deal back in the 1980s.Just about all major newspapers had more than one film critic on staff, as did news magazines like Time and Newsweek. And while some of these writers used a star-ranking system to give people a quick sense of what they felt about a given movie, y
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